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TIME IN THE NOVELS OF MILOS CRNJANSKI - Nottingham eTheses

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CHAPTER FOUR<br />

not explain his present position. reveal the human<br />

dimension o~ hopes and ~ears in time.<br />

The historical voice narrates ~rom<br />

the point in<br />

time which corresponds to the time o~ writinc. Unlike<br />

the authorial voice. able to move over the time period<br />

occupied by the characters and licht on any point in<br />

that period. or the chronicle voice which is at a ~ixed<br />

but unspeci~ied point in the ~uture. the historical<br />

voice assesses events in the novel ~rom<br />

what it recat-ds<br />

as "the world in which we now live":<br />

Tih dana. svet u kom sad !ivimo. bio je<br />

po~eo tek da se stvara. U kolonijalnim<br />

t-atovima. u pobunama. u sudbonosnim<br />

doco~ajima u Zndiji. Americi. i dalekim<br />

morima. stvarao se jedan novi svet. nov i<br />

za Evropljane. Zsakovi~i 0 tom nisu<br />

Enali (15).<br />

Zn those davs the world in which we now<br />

live had just becun to be created. Zn<br />

colonial wars. in revolutions. in fateful<br />

events in India. America, and the ~ar<br />

seas. a new world was beinc created. new<br />

~or the Europeans too. The Zsakovi~<br />

family did not know about that.<br />

The historical voice is isolated ~rom<br />

the world of the<br />

Isakovi~ ~amilY who knew nothinc o~ the Enlichtenment.<br />

and the European cultural developments of the time which<br />

laid the foundations ~or the cUlture o~ todav. Zts<br />

authority is dependent on its position in times it<br />

cont!'asts with the autho!'ial voice in that the authorial<br />

voice is linked to the knowledce of the characte!'s.<br />

whereas the historical'voice is charactet-ised by an<br />

epistemolocical divide which separates it from the<br />

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